Week 10 Web2.0 -- Del.Icio.Us … But can you taste it?

Del.Icio.Us … But can you taste it?

The week 10 web2.0 activity for exploring Del.icio.us begins at http://del.icio.us/ and ends (who knows where you will go?... Oh, the places you’ll go!)

Categorically, this is another Web2.0 tool for social bookmarking (and yes, another new account for me!). Technically, it was designed to allow users to store and share bookmarks on the web, instead of inside the user’s browser which offers several advantages like

1. You can get your bookmarks from anywhere-home, work, library, outhouse (for the very wired), etc.
2. You could share your bookmarks publicly so your friends and everyone can view them for reference, collaboration, or in my case, amusement. You could also mark yours as private (which kind of defeats the whole intent, but if you’re just using it as a web-only resource, then this would be preferable to public)
3. You can locate other people on del.icio.us who have similar tastes and add theirs to yours—as the site reminds people, “…which may help you find things that are useful for you, too.”

del.icio.us has a "hotlist" on its home page and "popular" and "recent" pages, which help to surface interesting content and make the website an effective conveyor of popular internet memes and trends.

Many novel features have contributed to making del.icio.us a very popular service. These include the website's simple interface, human-readable URL scheme, a novel domain name, a simple REST API, and RSS feeds for web syndication.

Use of del.icio.us is free. The source code of the site is not available, but a user's own data is freely downloadable through the API in an XML or JSON format, and can also be exported to a standard Netscape bookmarks format.

The very coolest feature I found in del.icio.us was the place to find the most popular tagged sites/bookmarks—the Tag Cloud.

del.icio.us was acquired by Yahoo! on December 9, 2005.Various guesses suggest it was sold for somewhere between US$15 million and US$30 million.

The del.icio.us domain name is a notable example of a domain hack, an unconventional combination of letters to form a word or phrase. del.icio.us, though not the first domain of this nature, is the best-known and most frequently-accessed domain hack, and the Yahoo! acquisition is the highest-profile acquisition of a domain in this category. However, delicious.com and delicio.us also redirect to the del.icio.us website.

Have Fun! but don't lick the monitor...